Archive for the ‘Text Analytics’ Category

01: What the SAP Agreement Means for ISYS

Well, quite a bit has been written in recent weeks about the global OEM agreement that ISYS secured with software giant SAP. Much of the comment has understandably been technical in nature, as well as what it means for the SAP products that are embedding ISYS Document Filters and Big Data as a driving force in Text Analytics.

But what I’d like to touch on here is just what the agreement means for ISYS as a company, in validating our medium term strategy of becoming the pre-eminent player in “Embedded Search”. In effect, decoupling our solutions (like Document Filters and Integration Kit) and using these as the dedicated search components powering a range of broader, search-enabled solutions.

In pursuing  this strategy, we now not only have major vendors like SAP, Sybase and MarkLogic; but through them and other larger Partners (such as HP, EMC, Proofpoint and Detica) also provide embedded ISYS solutions to many top Fortune 500 companies in business-critical application areas like Text Analytics, Enterprise Content Management, Email Archiving, eDiscovery and Data Loss Prevention.

Today, this means there is a high likelihood that your business is utilizing some form of search-enabled application powered by ISYS – along with 16,000 other organizations that use ISYS technology to help grow their business.

It also means that we have grown quite a bit as a company, based on delivering superior technology, backed up by great service and support. Indeed, those were essentially the reasons why SAP chose ISYS to help power its new generation of enterprise software solutions. We worked closely with SAP over 18 months and were able to leverage our existing relationship with Sybase, itself an SAP Company.

ISYS has very definitely arrived. Small wonder that many ISVs are now looking to us and our class-leading Document Filters technology to help them and their own customers extract greater business value in the world of Big Data.

02: Big Data: ISYS Webcast With IDC

All organizations keep a close watch on their assets — money in the bank, real estate, employees, equipment, orders, deliveries and intellectual property (like patents, trademarks and licenses).  Many even seek to measure the asset value of their brands.

This information is required for regulatory reasons and to enable the Board of Directors to manage the organization effectively.

However, very few have any kind of measure for the amount of information they have, even though this represents a fundamental asset of today’s organization.  Think of all the information residing in documents, emails, intranet, website, blogs and wikis.  Do you know how much potentially valuable data you have?  If you had to find business-critical data, could you find precisely what you need easily, quickly and to the level of detail you wanted?

Join ISYS and IDC’s Sue Feldman for a webcast on the topic of “Tackling Big Data:  Information Assets as a Competitive Advantage.”  During this session, Sue and ISYS CMO Mark Vadgama will discuss the state of information management, the challenges inherent in the explosion of unstructured content, and the methods and approaches today’s leading enterprises are employing to tackle ‘Big Data’.

03: Text-Aware Applications: What Defines Excellence

This just in:  if your analytics only take structured data into consideration, you’re missing a big piece of the story.  Accounting for ALL of your data (structured and unstructured) is the thrust of text-aware software.

A successful text-aware solution needs to deeply inspect and unlock the intelligence hidden within unstructured data sources.  Many industry experts say this is so important that it will define who wins or loses in a variety of market segments.  So the question is…who can you turn to, who can you trust and what are the costs?

To help you better understand your options, we’re  hosting a 30-minute webcast with Nick Patience, Co-Founder of The 451 Group; Andrew Neugebauer, Sr. Product Manager for Sybase, An SAP Company; and ISYS CMO Mark Vadgama.  The webcast will offer:

• 451 Group:  Extracting ‘intelligence’ from Unstructured Data
• Sybase IQ:  Overview of Unstructured Data Analytics
• ISYS:  A cost-effective, partner-driven solution for text extraction

Register for the webcast by visiting www.isys-search.com/freedomatlast or by calling 1 800 992-4797.

04: More Taste With Half the Calories

The genius minds who invented such great products as minute rice would be proud of us for bringing you the “30-Minute Webinar.”  We’re big proponents of the old adage “If you can say it in fewer words, then do it.”  So we did.  Or … we will.  Later this week in fact.  Read on!

30-Minute Webinar #1:  A single view of corporate data

Hosted by our Asia Pacific team, this session will appeal to those desperately trying to avoid another expensive data migration project and instead enable a universal view of corporate knowledge no matter where the content resides (no data exodus required).  Virtual data aggregation has become  a must-have capability in an age where instant access is driven by risk mitigation, compliance and reliable decision making.  The session will kick off at 10 a.m. Sydney Time (AEDT), this Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010.

Please join us by registering today.

30-Minute Webinar The Sequel:  Knowledge-Rich Solutions for Unstructured Data

ISYS customer Janya highlights the growing push for semantic analysis around unstructured content and how they are tackling it today.  Janya VP of Product Strategy, Dave Schubmehl, is the real deal when it comes to this topic, having previously served as VP for search and discovery products over at OpenText.  The session begins at High Noon, Eastern Time, on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010.

Join us, won’t you?

05: NEW: ISYS Document Filters 2010

The momentum we’ve built up over the last several weeks culminates tomorrow in the release of ISYS Document Filters 2010 – the newest version of our embedded solution for text extraction, printing and high-definition viewing.  This latest release of ISYS Document Filters is especially noteworthy, as it adds the critical fidelity components of printing and high-definition viewing.  These capabilities have become high-demand capabilities from enterprises, OEMs and ISVs who are either looking to fill a gap or replace existing technology from Oracle or Autonomy. 

The addition of printing and high-definition viewing was developed completely by the ISYS R&D team; these new capabilities are the most significant pieces of IP we’ve developed since the original release of ISYS Document Filters in March 2009 (formerly known as ISYS File Readers).  As you will recall, we’ve gained several new OEM customers in recent weeks, including Sybase and Janya, while continuing to expand our traditional embedded search deals, which recently includes Bridgeline Digital.

We’re taking the show on the road to Interop New York, where we’ll be in town on Wednesday to get the word out.  Look for the ISYS Street Team handing out branded canvas bags to the masses attending the event.

06: Sybase Taps ISYS Document Filters

As Gartner prepares to release its upcoming “State of the Union” on enterprise search, what’s clear from our perspective is that future market growth will be driven by innovations in text analytics and federated analysis of content stores.  No, this isn’t breaking news, and it doesn’t mean that commodity enterprise search goes away.  But if our customer base is any indication, today’s requirements have almost exclusively moved away from “search as convenience” to the “mandate of instant insight.”

Sybase is one of the driving forces behind text analytics today, and ISYS is pleased that it’s pioneering work in text analytics is playing a key role in the latest release of Sybase IQ.  At the TDWI conference last month in San Diego, Sybase announced its intention to enter into an agreement with ISYS under which Sybase will resell ISYS Document Filters as a key component for text analytics in Sybase IQ. 

Since the introduction of ISYS Document Filters in 2009, we’ve learned a great deal from implementations that are serving broad applications and use cases.  In fact, the innovations we’re actively infusing into our text extraction capabilities are being shaped by those experiences.  The applications that ISYS Document Filters help drive give us just a glimpse of how text analytics is evolving and how today’s innovators are approaching the “mandate of instant insight” challenge.